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Asian Woman Mag gives The Winter of Love 5 STARS

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“The Winter of Love is a sensitive drama that gets under the skin of Asian life with its atmospheric visuals and a compelling soundtrack by Kuljit Bhamra” Suman Bhuchar writing in Asian Woman, January issue. In the January Issue of Asian Woman’s film section, The Winter of Love walked away with a grand review by […]

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Koutaiba Al-Janabi – Cinematographer – Winter of Love

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Renowned Cinematographer Koutaiba Al-Janabi’s contribution to the independent film, The Winter of Love, was uncompromising. Highly experienced of working on low budget productions and supporting new film makers, meant that filming of The Winter of Love was possible. Below is an extract of an interview with Koutaiba Al-Janabi conducted by Charlie Sen. What is your […]

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Composer Kuljit Bhamra – the making of Winter of Love

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“All these experiences and memories were re-awakened the first time I read Shakila’s script. What struck me initially was her clever use of imagery in an un-chronological order”. Kuljit Bhamra Kuljit Bhamra’s original and passionate soundtrack for The Winter of Love left many wanting more from this versatile composer. Since creating the highly original soundtrack, […]

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Sound Design – The Winter of Love

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Sound Design has fast been gathering the momentum of star status within the post production world of motion picture. The importance of sound design to a film is paramount and with the advent of technical progress, the sophistication of its application and creation of sound design is reaching heady heights, ever evolving. In The Winter […]

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The Crew of The Winter of Love

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I am indebted by the incredible dedication that my producer Manjeet Singh showed whilst putting the film together. She managed to pull the production together and made the shoot possible against all odds. We were all unaware of the gravity of her condition and saw Manjeet continuing to work on the production despite having suffered […]

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The Winter of Love and its film language

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In The Winter of Love (formerly ‘A Quiet Desperation’), film language or creating its own internal language was a key driving force in making the film.Upon reflection, the DOP commented that we had entered the realms of European film making – albeit some clumsy moments, the film’s ambitions to a certain extent were met. By […]

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The Winter of Love and The Use of Colour

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In The Winter of Love (formerly ‘A Quiet Desperation’), the use of colour and choices were paramount to establishing character and the mood of the story.By choosing to make the film primarily in winter and parts of it shot in early summer, the colour and mood were set. Locating the film in Southall also meant […]

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An Extract from the Screenplay

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When I started to write the screenplay for The Winter of Love (formally ‘A Quiet Desperation’) I was looking for not just story in the classical sense but I wanted to create a visual language that the film could inhabit – something that was truly its own language; body and soul. Rumi’s famous saying of […]

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The Journey of Film in Southall

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Shooting The Winter of Love (formally ‘A Quiet Desperation’) in Southall was paramount to its manifestation. Without Southall – the film would be meaningless. It was not just the question of the story being played out in the streets of Southall – but enmeshed in it was my long standing relationship with the town. My […]

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Shiv Grewal from the cast The Winter of Love

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Shiv Grewal’s rendition of Shammi in The Winter of Love (formerly ‘A Quiet Desperation’) takes the viewer into a difficult world of a lonely man. Estranged from his brother and his family, Shammi finds himself on the outside, living a life as a drunk and destitute. The character of Shammi epitomises the question of what […]

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